The Supreme Court will get four new judges on Friday as Justice DY Chandrachud, Justice AM Khanwilkar and Justice Ashok Bhushan and the former additional solicitor general L.Nageswara Rao are scheduled to be sworn-in.

The Centre today confronted a furious Supreme Court after its lawyer did not show up for a hearing on drought. "Show some seriousness...are we useless?" the judges berated as the Centre requested more time saying the Additional Solicitor General was busy in another courtroom.

Additional Solicitor General (ASG) P S Narasimha made the submission before a bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice Jayant Nath which listed the pleas of cellular operators challenging the call drop regulations for further hearing on January 6.

Italy today said it will battle hard to defend the two Italian marines, accused of killing two Indian fishermen in 2012, when their case comes up for hearing before a Germany-based international tribunal from August 10.

Delhi High Court today came down heavily on the government and Delhi Police asking why they had not installed CCTVs to beef up security of women in the capital but had done so only for a visiting head of state.

The government today told the Supreme Court that it was not averse to the posting of extreme political views in the cyber world, but placed documents to buttress its argument that outrageous and offensive contents hurting religious sentiments needed to be blocked.

Senior Supreme Court advocate Mukul Rohatgi has been appointed the new Attorney General of India, the top law officer of the country. Mr Rohatgi had served as Additional Solicitor General in the last NDA regime.

The Ram Setu case in the Supreme Court will have a new advocate to represent the Centre. Additional Solicitor General Paras Kuhad will now represent the Centre in the case after the recusal of Senior Advocate Rajeev Dhavan.

Former Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee has slammed Additional Solicitor General Indira Jaising for releasing an affidavit, filed by a young woman where she has accused former Supreme Court judge AK Ganguly of sexual harassment.

The Supreme Court will get four new judges on Friday as Justice DY Chandrachud, Justice AM Khanwilkar and Justice Ashok Bhushan and the former additional solicitor general L.Nageswara Rao are scheduled to be sworn-in.

The Centre today confronted a furious Supreme Court after its lawyer did not show up for a hearing on drought. "Show some seriousness...are we useless?" the judges berated as the Centre requested more time saying the Additional Solicitor General was busy in another courtroom.

Additional Solicitor General (ASG) P S Narasimha made the submission before a bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice Jayant Nath which listed the pleas of cellular operators challenging the call drop regulations for further hearing on January 6.

Italy today said it will battle hard to defend the two Italian marines, accused of killing two Indian fishermen in 2012, when their case comes up for hearing before a Germany-based international tribunal from August 10.

Delhi High Court today came down heavily on the government and Delhi Police asking why they had not installed CCTVs to beef up security of women in the capital but had done so only for a visiting head of state.

The government today told the Supreme Court that it was not averse to the posting of extreme political views in the cyber world, but placed documents to buttress its argument that outrageous and offensive contents hurting religious sentiments needed to be blocked.

Senior Supreme Court advocate Mukul Rohatgi has been appointed the new Attorney General of India, the top law officer of the country. Mr Rohatgi had served as Additional Solicitor General in the last NDA regime.

The Ram Setu case in the Supreme Court will have a new advocate to represent the Centre. Additional Solicitor General Paras Kuhad will now represent the Centre in the case after the recusal of Senior Advocate Rajeev Dhavan.

Former Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee has slammed Additional Solicitor General Indira Jaising for releasing an affidavit, filed by a young woman where she has accused former Supreme Court judge AK Ganguly of sexual harassment.

Pressure mounted on Justice AK Ganguly to resign today from the West Bengal Human Rights Commission with Additional Solicitor General Indira Jaisingh making public the affidavit of the law intern who has alleged sexual harassment by the former Supreme Court judge.

Eminent lawyer Ashwani Kumar's career as Law Minister ironically came undone following a legal tangle of elephantine proportions, which put him in trouble at his place of work. Mr Kumar lists as his profession, 'Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India.'

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today said the "public spat" between the Attorney General and the Additional Solicitor General reinforces its view that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh should own up "responsibility" in the coal scam and step down.

After scripting a mega scandal for the government, Harin Raval has resigned as Additional Solicitor General. Sources say that his exit may soon be followed by that of Attorney General GE Vahanvati, who Mr Raval accuses of lying to the Supreme Court.

Coal Scam: The Supreme Court has castigated the CBI sharply today for showing a report on its coal investigation to the government before submitting it to judges last month. The court says their first exercise is to free the CBI from political interference.
As expected there has been a flurry of reactions to these observations. Here are some of t...

Coal scam: Attorney General GE Vahanvati will not represent the government at a crucial Supreme Court hearing today on whether the government tried to influence the CBI's investigation into the coal scam.

Hours before a crucial Supreme Court hearing on whether the government tried to influence the CBI's investigation into the coal scam, new and grave allegations have surfaced from one of the government's top legal officers.

Hours before a crucial Supreme Court hearing on whether the government tried to influence the CBI's investigation into the coal scam, new and grave allegations have surfaced from one of the government's top legal officers.

A meeting called by Law Minister Ashwani Kumar, where he allegedly made changes to a report that the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) would submit three days later to the Supreme Court, could prove to be perilous for the government and the investigating agency. But sources close to the Law Minister describe the controversy as "a storm in a tea...

At a meeting last month held at his office, Law Minister Ashwani Kumar made written changes to a report that the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) would submit days later to the Supreme Court on its coal investigation, say sources.

Eight months after her children returned to India after a lengthy legal battle in Norway, Sagarika Bhattacharya will be able to take them home. The 30-year-old had been granted custody of her son Abhigyan and her daughter Aishwarya by the Calcutta High Court.

There were dramatic scenes of Raisina Hill today as hundreds of women tried to enter Rashtrapati Bhavan to express their outrage over Sunday night's gang-rape of a young woman on a bus. Shouting "we want justice", the protestors tried to force their way in before they were stopped by the police.

The Supreme Court today pulled up the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) during a hearing of the 1992 Babri Masjid demolition conspiracy case and asked why the Additional Solicitor General was not present to argue on behalf of the agency.